You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

The worst thing about religion was religious people.